Charles Lacheroy

The colonel Charles Lacheroy (August 22nd 1906, Chalon-sur-Saône - January 25th 2005, Aix-en-Provence) was an officer military cadet French.

Biography

His/her father, the second lieutenant Charles Bernard Alexandre Lacheroy, mobilized in 1914 in the 56e Regiment of Infantry, knight of the Legion of honor, Military Cross, will be killed the August 2nd 1916 with Fleury, in front of the fort of Douaumont.

Raised by his/her paternal grandfather, war veteran of 1870, Charles Lacheroy between with the military special School of Saint-Cyr military school in 1925, after studies with the military national Academy and will leave in 1927, among the twenty first of promotion Morocco-Syria .

It chooses the colonial Infantry as regiment of fastener, where it exerts its competences of second lieutenant in the 3rd company meharist of the Raising, with Lattaquié “Latakieh” in Syria until in 1935.

In 1936, the Lacheroy captain is named officer instructor of the air group with Rabat (Morocco), and is made knowledge of a young whole raises Sous-lieutenant Polytechnicien Antoine Argoud which it will find, a score of years later in Algeria.

In 1937 it marries an young girl doctor of medicine, which will give him three children. In 1941 it is called with the staff of the general Jean de Lattre de Tassigny in Tunisia, for the preparation of the unloading of the French troops on the coasts of Provence which will be held the August 15th 1944.

In 1951 it leaves for the Indo-China where under the orders of the general Jean de Lattre de Tassigny it must protect the railway from the train which rejoins Saigon, and make safe the sector of Bien Hoâ in Cochinchine with the head of more than: 5000 men.

In 1953, the Lacheroy lieutenant-colonel is named in Paris, director of the Center of Asian and African studies (CEAA).

In 1954 and 1956 it will be to advise in turn of two Ministers for Defense Maurice Bourges-Maunoury and André Morice.

In 1958 colonel Lacheroy is dismissed by Chaban-Delmas, and is transferred in North constantinois (Algérie).

The May 13rd 1958 it is named director of the services of information and the psychological action in Algiers (Algeria).

In December 1958, it is named lecturer of pulpit to the affected University of war then to the direction of the University of the reserve officers of staff (ESORSEM).

Charles Lacheroy resigns and leaves the Army, it prepares and organizes a Coup d'etat on Paris against the president Charles de Gaulle, which will lead it in clandestinity and in exile during seven years near Antoine Argoud, Pierre Lagaillarde and OJ Ortiz for a command of OAS in Algérie and Métropole.

In April 1961 it is condemned to died by Contumace. In 1968 the amnesty enables him to regain Paris to purge its retirement.

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